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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Feb 15, 2020 16:20:16 GMT
My street name is nice and easy to spell because it is a very common national brand name. It is the last name of the person that started the subdivision in the 60's. I know the back story because I used to rent from the person's nephew back in the 90's before I moved back here and bought a house on the opposite end of the division.
My address is an even number, like "100". It isn't my mailing address, my mail has to be PO Box but UPS delivers here and the idiots at FedEx do to but for some reason, have a much harder time finding my house than UPS USUALLY does. All the other names in the subdivision are western and cowboy words.
When they were redoing some of the street names for 911 some years ago, the neighbor (who built my house and first person to move in) and the nephew got together and renamed all the streets. Several were in use in other parts of the county and had to go so they redid all in a theme. At the time, the streets HAD names but no street signs up so it wasn't really a hardship for anyone. Everyone had to do a weird address for package delivery. Back then, my UPS address when I lived here in the 90's was: My Name Subdivision Name First left, second right, 7th house on right Town, State, Zip
I kid you NOT!
I've had to use PO Boxes for the most part, except when I had a rural route address because I've always lived in or just outside very small towns or out in the country. I've had some pretty good addresses, Francis Ave, Edwards St, Lower Glenway, Pine St. Now the towns, The one I live in now and the last one I lived in Colorado. NO ONE can spell them...
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Post by edie3 on Feb 15, 2020 18:56:58 GMT
I like my address, it flows. But I hate writing it all out. It is 3 words, 20 letters total!
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Post by sues on Feb 15, 2020 19:15:35 GMT
Our subdivision is mostly floral and tree names...primrose, sunflower, tulip, palm, etc. We got Narcissus. (It's a daffodil.) I have to spell it every single time I say my address. Sometimes I have to say 'No. Not Narcissist.' (My husband's dim niece (his age) fell off her chair laughing when she found out the name of the street and said "How appropriate!" - which left both of us wondering what the hell her problem was.) Whoever developed our subdivision liked the name so much, he gave it to TWO streets within walking distance- one is a Lane and one is a Street. My sister lives a few minutes down the road and there are a lot of different names, no real theme - the best one is 'Bob-O-Link'. What in the ever-loving hell? If I was on the fence about a house, that street name would have ruled it out. Subdivision street name themes fascinate me. A few miles away there is one with jewelry related names - Cartier, Tiffany, etc. Another one is female first names of people in the family of the developer- Debbie Lane, Susan Lane, etc. He must have a big family.
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Post by Belia on Feb 15, 2020 19:38:11 GMT
I've never really thought about it... must mean that I've had decent addresses!
Roosevelt Road Walnut Street Austin Street Currently live on Franklin Street
The worst was the house I grew up in- a subdivision with all the streets named after Native American tribes. First of all, ew. Secondly, a little hard to spell.
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Post by snyder on Feb 15, 2020 19:40:19 GMT
Unless it was really out there, I probably wouldn't have noticed at time of purchase. The address I have now, I don't care for the street name as no one knows how to spell it. It is "Wandering" and most people want to spell it with an O or even a U. So its more of a hassle thing rather than not liking it. But, not doubt, there are some whoppers out there that I would rather not have for an address. What are these people thinking when they name streets? lol
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Post by shelby on Feb 15, 2020 19:46:16 GMT
There is a road not far from our house that is named Old Fart road. Don't think I would like to have that for my address. LOL A friend lived on Lonesome Lane. They built their house in a new area and were able to name their street. Her dh named it that and she hated it.
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Post by KikiPea on Feb 15, 2020 20:31:34 GMT
I’m the same way. There was one house we looked at that the street name was Spanish for something related to death. Nope! No thank you.
I was indifferent about the first two streets we lived on. I didn’t like that they were a pain because we had to spell them out every time. One was short, the other was not.
Loved the street name of our last house as it was very calming. The one we are in now has something to do with houses, but makes me think of dogs. LOL
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Post by moodyblue on Feb 15, 2020 20:38:53 GMT
Most streets in my small city are numbered; avenues run east and west and streets run north and south. The house number is four digits and the even numbers are on one side of the street/avenue and odd are on the other side. To me, it’s easy to find most places, unless the street is broken up by a ravine or something and doesn’t go straight through. Named streets are more difficult to locate if they are unknown to me.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 15, 2020 22:35:40 GMT
My address has Beechwood in it. I am always amazed at how many people spell it Beachwood.
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Post by nnnsmom on Feb 15, 2020 23:34:14 GMT
We have a rural county road address and I HATE IT!!!!! It has to be input a certain way for correct postal delivery and my husband likes to give out the abbreviated version. Drives me nuts. Same. But what doesn’t make any sense is that the abbreviation is how ours are listed on our drivers license and from the post office itself. But if you put that in ANYONE else’s mailing address info on their website it will act like it can’t locate us. So frustrating!
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Post by leslie132 on Feb 15, 2020 23:43:02 GMT
I totally get what you mean. When we built our home we first picked our lot. I WAS thrilled that the lot numbers were the same as the address I grew up at.....just in different order.
I’m in real estate. I am just about done being surprised by what makes a home “the” home for buyers!!!! It is fascinating!!
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Post by jassy on Feb 15, 2020 23:52:47 GMT
YES! We just moved in October and I LOVE our address. A) It's only 4 digits - our old address was 5 B) They are all even numbers. It's just so round and even and C) The street name is pleasant but not pretentious. It's perfection. When looking at houses, there was one on a street that had the same name as the last name of the asshole soccer coach my son suffered with for four years in HS. I told DH there was no way I could say that name every time I said our address. LOL. There's a River Styx road near us, and I always think ah hell no. lol.
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Post by sherri on Feb 16, 2020 18:03:28 GMT
We moved from NE West Devils Lake Road to Coast Ave.
I loved West Devils Lake Road, but it was awful when we had to say it over the phone. One person even asked why would we live on a street with a name like that! Devils Lake has a rich historical Native American folklore story associated with it. We were on the west side of the lake.
Coast Ave is so simple an I love it.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Feb 16, 2020 20:08:20 GMT
Chiming in here to say I get it too. Sometimes when we're driving in an unfamiliar area, I'll look at some of the street names and think how much I would hate to live on some of them. Usually its because they're weird-sounding, or hard to spell or just way too long. One neighborhood we drive to often (near a relative's house) has a whole host of weird street names that we pass, none of which I'd want to live on. The relative lives on one of the few normal-sounding (nice even) names in that neighborhood.
All of the addresses where I've lived contained at least one 6 (but never 666, LOL).
Our current address is nice sounding and the street name fits in well with the neighborhood. However, it does have to be spelled out when reciting it to someone. It's got 2 strikes against it for spelling -- one, it uses a soft "C", so everyone wants to spell it with an "S"; and two, it's a homonym with a word that actually does start with an "S". So everyone thinks its that name when they hear it. I'll usually say the street name followed immediately by the spelling - usually they're halfway through the "S" spelling of the wrong name by the time I get to "C-..." Kind of fun to watch actually, since it's so predictable. I'm usually impressed when someone gets it right on the first try, LOL.
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Post by papersilly on Feb 17, 2020 3:46:50 GMT
People seem to like our street name because the street signs keep getting stolen. When I give my address to customer service reps, they always comment on the street name.
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